Lots is happening at the moment.Little Nan's Bar is still being coy about the location of its new Brockley bar, but we do have an opening date - May 23rd for a soft launch, with the proper launch a week later.

Late Knights, who, true to their name, are taking their sweet time about opening their bar next to Mr Lawrence, have revealed the excellent name of their Crofton Park boozer: The London Beer Dispensary. It also now has its own Twitter feed - last tweet said the builders were "building hard". That was on March 10th. So god knows what they are building. But opening must be imminent.

UPDATE - Last night, The LDB tweeted last night to say that they are hoping to be open by May 21st/22nd.

Maddy's Fish Bar. Not a drinks venue, not Brockley, but still exciting. The New Cross posh fish-and-chippery has confirmed its formal opening date of April 29th.

Its being advertised as a brockley venue even though the Talbot is 16mins walk from Brockley Station (according to slow walking google maps) and much closer to St Johns station... besides its going to be called Little Nans Tea Cup so its *got to be the Tea Factory! (*Probably)

St Johns is not an area. The Talbot is in the Brockley conservation area, the Brockley ward, has a Brockley postcode and is right next to Brockley Market. Honestly, I don't care what we call this area - if you want to call the whole place St Johns, that's fine, but please can we stop trying to carve the area up into insignificant slivers? #bettertogether

Brockley seems the best name for it all, because it's actually its name. But whatever you want.

We had fantastic food at Maddy's last night, sandwiched between drinks in the LP Bar. Fishy Biz is our usual chippy, and we'll still be going there for takeaways, but Maddy's is perfect when you want something a bit more special - plus they serve booze. LP Bar was lovely too, really friendly staff and great cocktails - a happy trio of food & drink places in New Cross.

Hi Nick, I know this is the wrong thread but I couldn't see your email address anywhere ...this is an interesting site about Lewisham's lost cinemas- you may have seen it already but thought you'd like it.

"the whole area is clearly marked as wards" and "Most would consider Brockley the area around the station" but most of the west side of Brockley Station is actually Telegraph Hill ward and just up the road from the station, you hit Ladywell Ward (briefly). While Brockley Ward covers most of Lewisham Way (including the Talbot) and right down (including St Johns) towards Deptford.

Relax everyone - I wasn't saying the Talbot isn't in Brockley - it clearly is. I was just saying that Little Nan's advertising seemed to suggest a central Brockley location. I find brockley border arguments just as tedious as everyone else...

I visited The Brighton Beer Dispensary at the weekend. If they are anything to go by, the London Beer Dispensary will be pretty awesome. Darren, who used to be the manager at the Ravensbourne Arms will be taking the helm of the London side of the Late Knights venture.